236 – al-Maqāniʿī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd *
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and reliable transmitter: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bajalī, known as al-Maqāniʿī, from Kūfah.
He heard ḥadith from: Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Suddi; ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rawājini; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān ibn Suhayl—one of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah’s students; Abū Kurayb; Hishām ibn Yūnus; ʿAmrū ibn ʿAlī al-Fallas; Muḥammad ibn Bashshār; Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj; Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar al-Qaysī; Abū Mūsā al-Zaman; and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, the Qurʾān exegete; Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī; Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Taymulī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muqriʾ; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād, the ḥāfiẓ; and others.
He died in 310 AH.
ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Barbarī informed me, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khilāṭī narrated to me from him; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Irbilī told us; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī told us; Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, together with two Muḥammads—the sons of Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥadhdhāʾ—told us; they said:
Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Taymulī reported to us; ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Bajalī narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān narrated to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Qaʿnab, from a man who said:
“Al-Zubayr engaged a man in single combat while they were on a mountain. They grappled and rolled down, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whichever of the two gains the upper hand over his opponent—that is the one…’
Al-Zubayr gained the upper hand and killed him. When he came to the Prophet ﷺ, he said:”